US Patent Issued to LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY on June 9 for "Hydrogel" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,876, issued on June 9, was assigned to LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY (Leicestershire, Great Britain).

"Hydrogel" was invented by Helen Willcock (Leicestershire, Great Britain), Stephen Butler (Leicestershire, Great Britain) and Marianne Rolph (Leicestershire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrogel comprising a particle physically entrapped within a hydrogel matrix, a method for making the hydrogel, a particle for use in the hydrogel and the use of the hydrogel to sense a chemical species, especially anions in solution. The particle comprises an active material and a plurality of chains of a first polymeric material, each of...